Publications

  • , , & (). Light-Gated Electro(de)wetting with Photoswitchable Amphiphiles. The European Physical Journal E - Soft Matter and Biological Physics, 2026. doi: 10.1140/epje/s10189-026-00632-5.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , & (). Proton substructure and conductivity in the room-temperature proton conductors Zr1−xScxH5+x(PO4)3. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 9, 8055–8065. doi: 10.1021/acsaem.6c00368.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , & (). Stable Synapse-Like Memory Switching in N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 65 (25), e1823213. doi: 10.1002/anie.1823213.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , & (). Effects of Interfacial Hydrogen Bonding and Electrostatic Interactions on the Adsorption and Foaming Properties in Saponin Mixtures. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 721, Article 140757. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2026.140757.
  • , , , , , , , & (). N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers on Nickel, Iron, and Steel by a Radical-to-Carbene Strategy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 65, e18099. doi: 10.1002/anie.202518099.
  • , , , & (). Electrodewetting of Surfactant-Laden Drops on Silicon Oxide: Molecular Insights from Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. Langmuir, 40, 14510–14519. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6c01764.
  • , , , , & (). Interface-Targeted Drug Release Driven by Photoresponsive Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Complexes. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 703, Article 139030. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2025.139030.

  • , , , & (). Correlating Molecular Structure and Surface Forces in Confined Liquid Films. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2025, Article 139419. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2025.139419.
  • , , , , , , & (). Surface-Bulk Photochemical Coupling of Nonanoic Acid and 4-Benzoylbenzoic Acid: The Dual Role of the photosensitizer and Environmental Influences. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25, 13019–13035. doi: 10.5194/acp-25-13019-2025.
  • , , , , , , , , , , & (). Proton Ordering Induces a Polar Structure in the Antiferromagnetic Solid Proton Conductor FeH6(PO4)3. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, 33859–33869. doi: 10.1021/jacs.5c10508.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , & (). Correlation between the Coherence Length and Ionic Conductivity in LiNbOCl4 via the Anion Stoichiometry. Chemistry of Materials, 37, 4130–4144. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c00627.
  • , , , , , , , & (). Thermally Activated Swelling and Wetting Transition of Frozen Polymer Brushes: A New Concept for Surface Functionalization. Advanced Materials, 37, Article 2502173. doi: 10.1002/adma.202502173.

  • , , , , , , , & (). Interfacial Potentiodynamics of “Water-in-Salt” Electrolytes in Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Molecular Simulations. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128, 20378–20386. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c04982.
  • , , , & (). Photo-Induced Drug Release at Interfaces with Arylazopyrazoles. Chemical science, 15, 18865–18871. doi: 10.1039/D4SC04837G.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). Photoresponsive Arylazopyrazole Surfactant/PDADMAC Mixtures: Reversible Control of Bulk and Interfacial Properties. Nanoscale, 16, 9975–9984. doi: 10.1039/D3NR05414D.
  • , , , , , , , & (). Charge Regulation at the Nanoscale as Evidenced from Light-Responsive Nanoemulsions. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 146, 8362–8371. doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c14112.
  • , , , , , , , & (). Tailored Monolayers of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes by Kinetic Control. ACS Nano, 18, 3043–3052. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c08045.
  • , , , , , , & (). Cu/Au(111) Surfaces and AuCu Intermetallics for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide in Ionic Liquid Electrolytes. ACS Catalysis, 14, 1773–1784. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.3c04592.
  • , , , , , & (). Photoswitchable Arylazopyrazole Surfactants at the Water–Air Interface: A Microscopic Perspective. Langmuir, 2024. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c02397.

  • , , & (). Electrocatalysis and Self-Assembly at Solid/Liquid Interfaces Studied by Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy. in Wandelt, K., & Bussetti, G. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Solid-Liquid Interfaces (pp. 254–266). Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-323-85669-0.00098-2.
  • , , , , , & (). Molecular Kinetics and Wetting Dynamics of Self-Assembled Monolayers with Fluorinated Arylazopyrazoles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, 15316–15325. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c02472.
  • , , , , , , , , , & (). Photo-Responsive Control of Adsorption and Structure Formation at the Air-Water Interface with Arylazopyrazoles. Langmuir, 39, 5861–5871. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00294.
  • , , , & (). Influence of Interfacial Water and Cations on the Oxidation of CO at the Platinum/Ionic Liquid Interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 25, 1014–1022. doi: 10.1039/D2CP05178H.

  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , & (). Dynamic Molecular Switches with Hysteretic Negative Differential Conductance Emulating Synaptic Behaviour. Nature Materials, 21, 1403–1411. doi: 10.1038/s41563-022-01402-2.
  • , , , , & (). Near-UV Induced Rapid Formation of Compact Self-Assembled Organophosphonate Monolayers on H-Terminated Si(111) Surfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 126, 19978–19986. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03335.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). Surface Properties of Saponin - Chitosan Mixtures. Molecules, 27, 7505. doi: 10.3390/molecules27217505.
  • , , , , , , , , , , & (). Formation and Stability of Heterogeneous Organo–Ionic Surface Layers on Geological Carbonates. Energy and Fuels, 36, 7414–7433. doi: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.2c01117.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). Adsorption of CTAB on sapphire-c at high pH: Surface and zeta-potential measurements combined with sum-frequency and second-harmonic generation. Langmuir, 38, 3380–3391. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c03069.
  • , & (). Role of Imidazolium Cations on the Interfacial Structure of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids in Contact with Pt(111) Electrodes. Electrochemical Science Advances, e2100173. doi: 10.1002/elsa.202100173.
  • , , , , , & (). Structure-Property Relations of β-Lactoglobulin/κ-Carrageenan Mixtures in Aqueous Foam. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 640, 128267. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2022.128267.
  • , , , , & (). Dynamic Wetting of Photo-Responsive Arylazopyrazole Monolayers is Controlled by the Molecular Kinetics of the Monolayer. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144, 4026–4038. doi: 10.1021/jacs.1c12832.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). Responsive Material and Interfacial Properties Through Remote Control of Polyelectrolyte-Surfactant Mixtures. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 14, 4656–4667. doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c18934.
  • , , , , & (). pH Effects on the Molecular Structure and Charging State of β-Escin Biosurfactants at the Air-Water Interface. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 607, 1754–1761. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.09.086.

  • , & (). Nanoscale Effects on the Surfactant Adsorption and Interface Charging in Hexadecane/Water Emulsions. ACS Nano, 15, 20136–20147. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c08038.
  • , & (). Cations of ionic liquid electrolytes can act as a promoter for CO2 electrocatalysis through reactive intermediates and electrostatic stabilization. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 125, 16498–16507. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c02898.
  • , , , , , , , & (). Memory effects in polymer brushes showing co-nonsolvency effects. Adv. Coll. Interface Sci., 294, 102442. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2021.102442.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). Light-Induced Switching of Polymer-Surfactant Interactions Enables Controlled Polymer Thermoresponsive Behaviour. Chemical communications, 57, 5826–5829. doi: 10.1039/D1CC02054D.

  • , & (). Potential-Induced Adsorption and Structuring of Water at Pt(111) Electrode Surfaces in Contact with an Ionic Liquid. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 11, 7116–7121. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02037.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). β-Lactoglobulin Adsorption Layers at the Water/Air Surface: 4. Impact on Stability of Foam Films and Foams. Minerals, 10 (636), 1–19. doi: 10.3390/min10070636.
  • , , , , , , , & (). Photo-Switchable Surfactants for Responsive Air-Water Interfaces: Azo vs. Arylazopyrazole Amphiphiles. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124, 6913–6923. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c02848.
  • , , & (). Role of H2O for CO2 Reduction Reactions at Platinum/Electrolyte Interfaces in Imidazolium Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids. ChemElectroChem, 7, 1765–1774. doi: 10.1002/celc.202000316.
  • , & (). Spiropyran Sulfonates for Photo and pH Responsive Air-Water Interfaces and Aqueous Foam. Langmuir, 36, 6871−6879. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03387.
  • , , , , , , & (). Unexpected Monolayer-to-Bilayer Transition of Arylazopyrazole Surfactants Facilitates Superior Photo-Control of Fluid Interfaces and Colloids. Chemical science, 11, 2085–2092. doi: 10.1039/C9SC05490A.
  • , , , , & (). A cyclodextrin surfactant for stable emulsions with accessible cavity for host-guest-complexation. Chemical communications, 56, 15434–15437. doi: 10.1039/D0CC06657E.

  • , , & (). Specific Ion Effects of Trivalent Cations on the Structure and Charging State of β-Lactoglobulin Adsorption Layers. Langmuir, 35, 11299–11307. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01803.
  • , & (). Specific Ion Effects of Dodecyl Sulfate Surfactants with Alkali Ions at the Air-Water Interface. Molecules, 24, 2911. doi: 10.3390/molecules24162911.
  • , , & (). Mechanistic Insights on CO2 Reduction Reactions at Platinum/[BMIM][BF4] Interfaces from In Operando Spectroscopy. ACS Catalysis, 9, 6284–6292. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01033.
  • , , , , & (). Aqueous Mixtures of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Entropy-Driven Accumulation of Water Molecules at Interfaces. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123, 13795–13803. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b04098.
  • , & (). CnTAB / Polystyrene Sulfonate Mixtures at Air-Water Interfaces: Effects of Alkyl Chain Length on Surface Activity and Charging State. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 21, 7847–7856. doi: 10.1039/c9cp01107b.
  • , & (). Hydroxypropyl Cellulose as a Green Polymer for Thermo-Responsive Aqueous Foams. Soft Matter, 15, 2876–2883. doi: 10.1039/c9sm00093c.
  • , , , , & (). Quantifying Double-Layer Potentials at Liquid-Gas Interfaces from Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation. J. Phys. Chem. C, 123, 1279–1286. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10097.

  • , , , , , & (). Role of Citrate and NaBr at the Surface of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles during Functionalization. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122, 27383–27391. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b07897.
  • , , & (). Charge Controlled Surface Properties of Native and Fluorophore Labeled Bovine Serum Albumin at the Air-Water Interface. J. Phys. Chem. B, 122, 10377–10383. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06481.
  • , , , & (). On the complex role of ammonia in the electroless deposition of curved silver patches on silica nanospheres. CrystEngComm, 20, 6214–6224. doi: 10.1039/C8CE00866C.
  • (). Effects of Ca2+ Ion Condensation on the Molecular Structure of Polystyrene Sulfonate at Air-Water Interfaces. Langmuir, 34, 11714–11722. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b02631.
  • , , , & (). Molecular structure of octadecylphosphonic acids during their self-assembly on alpha-Al2O3(0001). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20, 19382–19389. doi: 10.1039/C8CP02391C.
  • , , , & (). Smart Air-Water Interfaces with Arylazopyrazole Surfactants and their Role in Photoresponsive Aqueous Foam. Langmuir, 34, 6028–3035. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00587.
  • , , , , , & (). Impact of formulation pH on physicochemical protein characteristics at the liquid-air interface. International Journal of Pharmaceutics: X, 541, 234–245. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2018.02.009.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , & (). The surface chemistry of sapphire-c: A literature review and a study on various factors influencing its IEP. Langmuir, 541, 234–245. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2017.12.004.

  • , , , & (). Ion Pairing and Adsorption of Azo Dye/C16TAB Surfactants at the Air-Water Interface. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017 (121), 27992–28000. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b08924.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). Nanocylindrical confinement imparts highest structural order in molecular self-assembly of organophosphonates on aluminum oxide. Nanoscale, 9, 6291–6295. doi: 10.1039/c7nr02420g.
  • , & (). Structure of Polystyrene Sulfonate/Surfactant Mixtures at Air-Water Interfaces and their Role as Building Blocks for Macroscopic Foam. Langmuir, 2017 (33), 3499–3508. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00400.
  • , , & (). In situ spectroscopy of ligand exchange reactions at the surface of colloidal gold and silver nanoparticles. J. Phys.: Cond. Matter, 29 (13), 133002. doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/aa5a3c.
  • , , , , , & (). Functionalization of Steel Surfaces with Organic Acids: Influence on Wetting and Corrosion Behavior. Applied Surface Science, 404, 326–333. doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.01.199.

  • , , , & (). Vibrational sum-frequency generation study of the CO2 electrochemical reduction at Pt/EMIM-BF4 solid/liquid interfaces. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 800, 144–150. doi: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2016.10.035.
  • , , , , , , , , , , & (). Specific effects of Ca2+ ions and molecular structure of β-lactoglobulin interfacial layers that drive macroscopic foam stability. Soft Matter, 12 (27), 5995–6004. doi: 10.1039/c6sm00636a.
  • (). Molekulares Verständnis fluider Grenzflächen am Beispiel von Proteinschäumen. Chemie Ingenieur Technik, 88 (9), 1298. doi: 10.1002/cite.201650452.
  • , , , & (). Lubrication of Individual Microcontacts by a Self-Assembled Alkyl Phosphonic Acid Monolayer on α-Al2O3(0001). Langmuir, 32 (33), 8298–8306. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b01933.
  • , , & (). Interaction between Polymeric Additives and Secondary Fluids in Capillary Suspensions. Langmuir, 32 (6), 1440–1449. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b03861.
  • , , & (). Fast and slow ligand exchange at the surface of colloidal gold nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120 (3), 1673–1682. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11055.

  • , , , , & (). Self-assembled monolayers get their final finish via a quasi-Langmuir-Blodgett transfer. Langmuir, 31 (16), 4678–4685. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00440.
  • , , , , , & (). Carboxylate Ion Pairing with Alkali-Metal Ions for Β-Lactoglobulin and Its Role on Aggregation and Interfacial Adsorption. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 119 (17), 5505–5517. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b01944.

  • , , & (). Vibrational sum-frequency generation at protein modified air-water interfaces: Effects of molecular structure and surface charging. Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science, 19 (3), 207–215. doi: 10.1016/j.cocis.2014.03.008.
  • , & (). Surface spectroscopy of Pt(1 1 1) single-crystal electrolyte interfaces with broadband sum-frequency generation. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 716 (null), 136–144. doi: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2013.10.019.
  • , , & (). Surface charging and interfacial water structure of amphoteric colloidal particles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118 (19), 10033–10042. doi: 10.1021/jp412295j.
  • , , , , , & (). Shedding light on the growth of gold nanoshells. ACS Nano, 8 (3), 3088–3096. doi: 10.1021/nn500729r.
  • , , , , , & (). Mixed layers of β-lactoglobulin and SDS at air-water interfaces with tunable intermolecular interactions. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 118 (15), 4098–4105. doi: 10.1021/jp501541q.
  • , , , , , , , & (). Indentation and self-healing mechanisms of a self-assembled monolayer - A combined experimental and modeling study. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136 (30), 10718–10727. doi: 10.1021/ja5048076.
  • , , & (). Einfluss von Proteinen auf die Schaumbildung und Schaumstabilität. in Forschungskreis, d. E. (ed.), Proteinschäume in der Lebensmittelproduktion: Mechanismenaufklärung, Modellierung und Simulation (pp. 11–28). unbekannt / n.a. / unknown.

  • , , , , , , , & (). PH effects on the molecular structure of β-lactoglobulin modified air-water interfaces and its impact on foam rheology. Langmuir, 29 (37), 11646–11655. doi: 10.1021/la402729g.
  • Wieckowski, A., Korzeniewski, C., & Braunschweig, B. (ed.) (). Vibrational Spectroscopy at Electrified Interfaces. John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118658871.

  • , , , , , , , & (). In situ spectroscopic examination of a low overpotential pathway for carbon dioxide conversion to carbon monoxide. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116 (29), 15307–15312. doi: 10.1021/jp210542v.
  • , , , , , , , , & (). The microelectronic wireless nitrate sensor network for environmental water monitoring. J. Environ. Monitoring, 14 (12), 3068–3075. doi: 10.1039/c2em30380a.
  • , , , , , , & (). Protein adsorption at the electrified air-water interface: Implications on foam stability. Langmuir, 28 (20), 7780–7787. doi: 10.1021/la301368v.
  • , , , , , & (). Impact of oxygen plasma treatment on the device performance of zinc oxide nanoparticle-based thin-film transistors. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 4 (3), 1693–1696. doi: 10.1021/am2018223.

  • , , , , & (). Study of ethanol electrooxidation in alkaline electrolytes with isotope labels and sum-frequency generation. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2 (17), 2236–2240. doi: 10.1021/jz200957e.
  • , , , , , & (). Reaction pathways of ethanol electrooxidation on polycrystalline platinum catalysts in acidic electrolytes. J. Catalysis, 278 (2), 181–188. doi: 10.1016/j.jcat.2010.11.018.
  • , , & (). Pt(111) thin-layer electrodes on α-Al2O3(0001): Morphology and atomic structure. Surface Science, 605 (null), 1082–1089. doi: 10.1016/j.susc.2011.03.009.
  • , , , , , & (). Tuning the molecular order of C 60 functionalized phosphonic acid monolayers. Langmuir, 27 (24), 15016–15023. doi: 10.1021/la203916h.

  • , , , , & (). Sum-frequency generation of acetate adsorption on Au and Pt surfaces: Molecular structure effects. Journal of Chemical Physics, 133 (23). doi: 10.1063/1.3507257.
  • , , , & (). Real-time investigations of Pt(111) surface transformations in sulfuric acid solutions. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132 (40), 14036–14038. doi: 10.1021/ja106618z.

  • , & (). Superstructures and order-disorder transition of sulfate adlayers on Pt(111) in sulfuric acid solution. Langmuir, 25 (18), 11112–11120. doi: 10.1021/la901399j.
  • , , & (). One-dimensional defects in iodine adlayers on Pt(1 0 0). Surface Science, 603 (23), 3361–3366. doi: 10.1016/j.susc.2009.09.028.
  • , , , , , , & (). Atomic transport in metastable compounds: Case study of self-diffusion in Si-C-N films using neutron reflectometry. Physical Review B - Condensed matter and materials physics, 80 (22). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.220101.
  • (). In-situ-Untersuchungen zur molekularen Struktur von Festkörper/Elektrolyt-Grenzflächen: Platin und alpha-Al2O3(0001). [Dissertation thesis, Technische Unversität Clausthal]. Papierflieger.

  • , , , , , , , , , & (). Potentials and limits of mid-infrared laser spectroscopy for the detection of explosives. Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 92 (null), 327–333. doi: 10.1007/s00340-008-3134-z.
  • , , & (). Molecular structure of a mineral/water interface: Effects of surface NanoRoughness of α-Al2O3 (0001). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 112 (6), 1751–1754. doi: 10.1021/jp711758y.

  • , , & (). Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of suboxides at oxidized Si(111) interfaces. Physical Review Letters, 93 (9). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.097402.